Sponge Mosaic

Sponge Mosaic

Vivian Rachel Feig, Pier Giuseppe Rivano, Benjamin Neal Muller, Ashka Tejendra Patel, Sanghyun Park, Caroline Dial, Savannah Jinhee Kim, Giovanni Traverso

The image of a slow-release drug delivery implant was taken with the hope to gain the ability to one day be able to assemble multiple types of drugs together into a single implant to enable multi-stage or pulsatile release. This image will help improve the comprehension of the variables that determine the size, shape, and porosity of implants that are self-assembled after injection. By learning more about how to self-assemble different kinds of solid structures, it will help to one day make life easier for patients by replacing surgical implantation procedures with simple needle injections. 

Black and white image of a pile of small square crystals. Appearing like square sponges pressed against glass.

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